Margaret Rudd & Associates, Inc REALTORS

unknown

I contacted Rudd to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1490 sf house on Oak Island that I inherited. The house was also full of antiques, valuable paintings and serigraphs, fentonware, milk glass - u name it. She started at the front door and said put it on the market as-is for $170K. By the time she got thru the Carolina Room and to the screened porch she had come down to $150K with the comment ?I?m used to selling nice houses?. It?s a brick house with garage on two lots in the Yaupon area - not exactly a shack. I had heard that there was a business in the area that would give you a price for the entire contents of the house but didn?t know who it was. I questioned this realtor about that or any other options for disposing of personal estate property. She said she could give me the number of someone she works with that would charge me to haul it off and then someone else?s number to come and clean the house. She was very condescending and acted like she would be doing me a favor. I have since been made an offer from one of those buy-your-house companies (fast closers) for more than she said to put it on the market for. I was probably expecting too much but I thought realtors had all sorts of contacts and would have many helpful suggestions. I have since found out, on my own, that there are companies right here in the area that do estate sales of personal property. One would think a local realtor should know that.

After the contract was up, we didn't renew. We don't live down there, so we assume they did fine. The market/economy was poor, so we decided to take the home off the market.